tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post114366415969869375..comments2024-03-28T23:02:03.573-07:00Comments on Kung Fu Monkey: Global Photoshop #2Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551450586119958881noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post-1143744010108715782006-03-30T10:40:00.000-08:002006-03-30T10:40:00.000-08:00You know, a lot of these losers are taking these t...You know, a lot of these losers are taking these tours and claiming to show us what the media refuses to. And none of them has an original idea.<BR/><BR/>How many of them are playing the same trick?Grants Specialisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16130860718294683101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post-1143743415570502092006-03-30T10:30:00.000-08:002006-03-30T10:30:00.000-08:00Here's an intersting addendum to the story:http://...Here's an intersting addendum to the story:<BR/><BR/>http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/03/was-gop-candidate-kaloogian-who-claims.html<BR/><BR/>One of the readers who was poking into this story is having a hard time finding any evidence that Kaloogian was in Iraq any time more recent than July of 2005.<BR/><BR/>Which means the "correct" photo would be about <I>8 months old</I>. Of course, with Iraq being so peaceful and stable, nothing could <I>possibly</I> change in 8 months, right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post-1143732586071678262006-03-30T07:29:00.000-08:002006-03-30T07:29:00.000-08:00The new photo was taken from a hotel inside the Gr...The new photo was taken from a hotel inside the Green Zone in Baghdad. I guess things look great in Iraq, if by Iraq you mean the heavily fortified Green Zone. Jebus, Bushbot Republicans really are dirtbags.<BR/><BR/>Oh and just to add pee-flavored icing to the crap cake, the blue building in the new picture is an Iraqi police station which was apparently blown up some time after the photo was taken.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post-1143685778692350312006-03-29T18:29:00.000-08:002006-03-29T18:29:00.000-08:00But it I may, this can all be cleared up easily en...<I>But it I may, this can all be cleared up easily enough -- just post the photos of happy, bustling Baghdad you DID take. That's all.</I><BR/><BR/>Couldn't have said it better myself. I mean, the GOP has Fox News as its own propaganda outlet -- why aren't <B>they</B> running all of the shiny happy Iraq stories?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post-1143672449874844232006-03-29T14:47:00.000-08:002006-03-29T14:47:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.veteran novicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04903327575013209601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post-1143672323483230032006-03-29T14:45:00.000-08:002006-03-29T14:45:00.000-08:00"We have corrected it with a photograph we took fr..."We have corrected it with a photograph we took from Baghdad. We took this photo of downtown Baghdad while we were in Iraq."<BR/><BR/>Apparently, taken from a window waaaay up in a nice safe hotel, far from the streets where tots run around with their gifts of soccer balls and candy, Shia and Sunni neighbors exchange hugs in front of freshly painted schools, and armies of people sweep up the day's accumulation of rose petals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post-1143671714252151402006-03-29T14:35:00.000-08:002006-03-29T14:35:00.000-08:00His new picture looks like it was taken from one o...His new picture looks like it was taken from one of those hotel balconies the Bushies are always complaining about when reporters use them because it is too dangerous to travel in the streets.veteran novicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04903327575013209601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post-1143670773495001392006-03-29T14:19:00.000-08:002006-03-29T14:19:00.000-08:00He's actually replaced the photo:Baghdad.(warning....He's actually replaced the photo:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.kaloogianforcongress.com/aboutus.asp?id06=116&par06=104#" REL="nofollow">Baghdad.</A><BR/><BR/>(warning... his site is really lagging right now)<BR/><BR/>The new photo is somewhat less festive looking. No people, few cars in the streets, a long shot of rooftops. Not exactly proof of being "calm and stable". Is that the best shot he has of Baghdad? Things must be WORSE than we think then, not better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9380399.post-1143669174340574442006-03-29T13:52:00.000-08:002006-03-29T13:52:00.000-08:00that's another thing about these guys that disgust...that's another thing about these guys that disgusts me. it's never their fault. it's always "i didn't know" or "the dog ate my homework." by the by, i went to the auction where they sold off some of cunningham's loot. the dude didn't know his stuff at all, his taste was awful. more than a couple of the "hand made persian" rugs were machine made chinese, not antique. most of the antiques were either not all that rare, or in crappy condition. what we had was a guy who didn't know his market, wasn't blessed with an abundance of natural taste or grace, who ran apeshit with somebody else's credit cards. sheesh, if the electorate isn't tired of these guys by now, what will it take. i couldn't ever run either, too many hours on the tour bus . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com